- Good decision making is about selection options that are good and avoid the bad

learning from mistakes - ours and others - avoid problems

learning from success - repeat what works

- There are a variety of choices to assess projects with.

- Financial Cost

- Time to Completion

- Failure to meet one of more specifications

- Failure to make it operational

- Excessive use of resources

- Unmanageable

- At the begining of any design there are many unknowns. As the project progresses the number of unknown factors is reduced. A poor decision at the beginning of the project can have major effects later.

- A method is presented here that allows a semi-objective approach for assessing decisions.